CVE-2013-5587

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Published 2013-08-23 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

2.6

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Request Tracker (RT) 4.x before 4.0.13, when MakeClicky is configured, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a URL in a ticket. NOTE: this issue has been SPLIT from CVE-2013-3371 due to different affected versions.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
bullseye	Fixed	`4.0.12-2`
bookworm	Fixed	`4.0.12-2`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
bestpractical	rt	`4.0.0`
bestpractical	rt	`4.0.1`
bestpractical	rt	`4.0.2`
bestpractical	rt	`4.0.3`
bestpractical	rt	`4.0.4`
bestpractical	rt	`4.0.5`
bestpractical	rt	`4.0.6`
bestpractical	rt	`4.0.7`
bestpractical	rt	`4.0.8`
bestpractical	rt	`4.0.9`
bestpractical	rt	`4.0.10`
bestpractical	rt	`4.0.11`
bestpractical	rt	`4.0.12`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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